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is now an associate editor with the "washington post." this is his second book, "little america" to his first, emerald city, about iraq. 202 -- you can see the numbers on your screen. go ahead and out in now. we will begin with a call from hunter in loveland, colorado. >> caller: yeah, i was wondering if he thought the reasons for the war within establishment of a democratic government, or more at a western capitalistic economic system. >> guest: certainly when the taliban was overthrown in 2001, the bush administration wanted to build a more democratic government in afghanistan. that was certain that hard to get more democratic than the taliban have no great love for democracy, and the government that has been created there is a demo -- democratic system. it is, however, obsessed by corruption and cronyism and incompetence, and a lot of backroom dealing, and a number of fairly undemocratic despicable warlords have been brought in positions of power. so it's hard look at the government there and say it's a true democracy, that is a clean
is now an associate editor with the "washington post." this is his second book, "little america" to his first, emerald city, about iraq. 202 -- you can see the numbers on your screen. go ahead and out in now. we will begin with a call from hunter in loveland, colorado. >> caller: yeah, i was wondering if he thought the reasons for the war within establishment of a democratic government, or more at a western capitalistic economic system. >> guest: certainly when...
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president obama cutting short his holiday to take up the financial fight in washington. plus -- >> in central kenya, this is one of the last remaining northern white rhinos in the world. new technology could help protect it. >> welcome to the program. i wish there was a plan, words from the man trying to broker a peace deal in syria. international envoy lakhdar brahimi made the comments in the last few hours at the end of a trip to syria. he met with representative poe representatives from both sides. >> some have come here to market a russian-american project. i wish there was a russian- american project. hence, i did not come here to market it. >> the syrian government delegation led by the country's deputy foreign minister has been in russia for talks. he was reportedly sent to moscow by bashar al-assad. . expect an announcement on the outcome of those talks later on a thursday. this activity a shows police shelling in the tone of rastan, an important town for the rebels, who have a large presence there. there's been your children being killed on the internet. a warni
president obama cutting short his holiday to take up the financial fight in washington. plus -- >> in central kenya, this is one of the last remaining northern white rhinos in the world. new technology could help protect it. >> welcome to the program. i wish there was a plan, words from the man trying to broker a peace deal in syria. international envoy lakhdar brahimi made the comments in the last few hours at the end of a trip to syria. he met with representative poe...
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last week, a washington passed an act targeting russian rights abuses. the list of officials facing travel bans and asset freezes. in the duma, russian legislators promised retaliation in kind. critics accused them of using children as political weapons. >> any child has the right to be treated with care and with love by any person, irrespective of their nationality. >> according to brussels' official agency, there are 130,000 children eligible for adoption, yet last year fewer than 11,000 found families. 956 went to the u.s.. over the past 20 years, as many as 60,000 russian orphans found homes in america. but isolated cases of abuse by adoptive parents in the u.s. have caused public outcries in russia. this person was abandoned by his american adoptive mother and sent back to moscow. supporters of the bill say that russia should foster its own. >> if there is any doubt there are not adequate levels of safety for children in the u.s., it is serious grounds for suspension and a ban of adoption. unfortunately, the current position of the authorities in am
last week, a washington passed an act targeting russian rights abuses. the list of officials facing travel bans and asset freezes. in the duma, russian legislators promised retaliation in kind. critics accused them of using children as political weapons. >> any child has the right to be treated with care and with love by any person, irrespective of their nationality. >> according to brussels' official agency, there are 130,000 children eligible for adoption, yet last year fewer than...
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drones with washington claiming it and targets insurgents. the americans in their hundreds of thousands across the states have gone online to say they want their region to be independent from washington he's been a part not trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to reap the stars and stripes apart. from the. war to launder here's a former colony won the right to terminate its own destiny. the test of perfecting our european moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean somet
drones with washington claiming it and targets insurgents. the americans in their hundreds of thousands across the states have gone online to say they want their region to be independent from washington he's been a part not trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to reap the stars and stripes apart. from the. war to launder here's a former colony won the right to terminate its own destiny. the test of perfecting our european moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's...
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adoptions of russian children in response to washington slapping sanctions on russian officials. it is alive and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing a joshua welcome to the program. early results from the final round of voting in edge of struggle referendum suggests the new constitution is likely to pass it follows nearly a month of protest where the latest vile outbreak being in the country's second largest city of alexandria journalist bel true has more from the capital cairo. we're going to the results in egypt's contentious constitutional referendum egypt appears to voted for the constitution sixty four percent say yes. thirty six percent have said no this comes after mass dissent in the streets across the country with a cast three weeks against this constitution opposition forces say in force a presidential dictatorship and was drafted by an islamist dominated assembly of the twenty seven governors that went to vote in the last week only three voted against the constitution. this in the last round is largely due to the fact that in the last sevent
adoptions of russian children in response to washington slapping sanctions on russian officials. it is alive and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing a joshua welcome to the program. early results from the final round of voting in edge of struggle referendum suggests the new constitution is likely to pass it follows nearly a month of protest where the latest vile outbreak being in the country's second largest city of alexandria journalist bel true has more from the...
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and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have a very concise as well to be able to see that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the distance between them and also told that could be dangerous so we're going just a shell but the record. and quietly went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away another local resident who hates his piece being disturbed here is this callous sea eagle it has a wingspan of two and a half meters it ness only here in washes far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the mara island it has the biggest colony of sea
and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have a very concise as well to be able to see that...
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if i would've come here to washington d.c. two years ago, i would've told you president hosni mubarak will be caged in jail. you would think i'm insane. today i'm coming to tell you in the long term there should be a linkage between the palestinian judaic, and in the future you would say it's not going to happen. they would not agree to it. so things change very fast and we have to put forward what we believe is good for us. >> at the situation continues, i fear for israel's security and future. i see that it's dangerous and there's also a moral issue they are coming to come the patina. >> thank you. >> my name is jerry dan says. i was in jerusalem in 1973 when the war broke out in all the european nations made a big point of saying, we're not going to send any weapons to the middle east because we don't want to encourage the war this just started. which sounds very noble except at the same time the russians were booked to sending weapons to the syrians and egyptians. my concern is with the shiites and the sunnis. if iran gets
if i would've come here to washington d.c. two years ago, i would've told you president hosni mubarak will be caged in jail. you would think i'm insane. today i'm coming to tell you in the long term there should be a linkage between the palestinian judaic, and in the future you would say it's not going to happen. they would not agree to it. so things change very fast and we have to put forward what we believe is good for us. >> at the situation continues, i fear for israel's security and...
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there was a poll in "the washington post" today, it was very striking to note that for the first time when people have been askedhis question after -- and they have been asked it after a series of acts of mass violence, columbine, virginia tech, et cetera, aurora, do you think that this was an isolated act or does it say something about more troubling conditions in our society? i'm paraphrasing. for the first time. every other time people said it was an isolated act of a madman or mad people. this time they said it reflects a deeper problem in our society, and i believe what causes that change is that 20 of the victims in newtown, connecticut, were young children, and there is not only a heartbreak across our country about this, not only anger, but i think there is guilt, and we all ought to feel guilty because as a society what the attacks in newtown said to us is that we have failed to fulfill what would seem to be our most natural, natural law, if you will, responsibility, which is to protect the safety and lives of our children. so i hope we will act. there will be no better tribu
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our chancellor mrs merkel is obviously fulfilling and prematurely fulfilling washington's wishes which is completely against the will of the people and sixty percent by the way is i think not the correct figure this is a regular tradition nowadays that the parliament overrides the wishes of the people so many people here do not trust the parliament they do not trust the government and they do not trust the media and what we have here is you know you know eighty percent were against the afghanistan issue and we sent our troops against their wishes then you know paying into the bankrupt euro currency to get again against eighty percent of the wishes of the people and sending these patriot systems and that very bad situation. still to come should the french cut off qatari cash that's a question will lead to this twenty one previously welcome investment is now the focus of high level skepticism of it is in the midst influence interesting story coming up also to britain has raised the alarm with a force to fork out over two thirds of their monthly income tax. with. its technology innovation
our chancellor mrs merkel is obviously fulfilling and prematurely fulfilling washington's wishes which is completely against the will of the people and sixty percent by the way is i think not the correct figure this is a regular tradition nowadays that the parliament overrides the wishes of the people so many people here do not trust the parliament they do not trust the government and they do not trust the media and what we have here is you know you know eighty percent were against the...
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up next from our studios in washington d.c. abby martin takes on the mainstream media internet knights breaking the set. i. she good leverage surely to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and work this is why you should care only. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks and try it because you know how fabulous i'd love. to eat i mean. i know that i've seen the same thing really messed up. and we're all very sort of personally apologize if that. worst you were going through the white house soup of the day the radio guy pulled out of a.o.l. minestrone click. i want to quote for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm told. how low i'm sorry mark and this is breaking the set today i want to talk to you about three citizen who was kidnapped off the street by the cia on new year's eve in two thousand and three while i was vacationing in macedonia a monster was secr
up next from our studios in washington d.c. abby martin takes on the mainstream media internet knights breaking the set. i. she good leverage surely to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and work this is why you should care only. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks and try it because you know how fabulous i'd love. to eat i mean. i know that...
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hundreds of thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington residents across the land have signed internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore portnoy a story. for the. war to wonder here is a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. a perfect thing or you move forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has the rolling disunion among in the among the people they can't last forever and that's the lesson of history b
hundreds of thousands of americans say they want to break away from washington residents across the land have signed internet petition saying they don't want to be part of the united states anymore portnoy a story. for the. war to wonder here is a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. a perfect thing or you move forward. four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed...
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state of washington. apparently having drifted from japan after the massive tsunami hit the country in march of last year. >>> a u.s. coast guard helicopter spotted the nine-meter concrete pier on the shore of the olympic peninsula. bad weather has prevented a close study. no signs or letters have been confirmed on the pier. a floating pier from japan's northeastern prefecture was found on the oregon coast in june. it was later demolished by the state government. japan's environment ministry says ocean currents are likely to deliver 33,000 tons of tsunami debris to the pacific coast of north america by june of next year. >>> international organizations are denouncing a tax on health workers in pakistan this week. the violence put a halt to vaccine work in the country. our reporter in bangkok has more. >>> gunmen shot and killed 12 members of polio vaccination teams in separate incidents around pakistan this week. the united nations is protecting staff members in the country by taking them off duty. the u.
state of washington. apparently having drifted from japan after the massive tsunami hit the country in march of last year. >>> a u.s. coast guard helicopter spotted the nine-meter concrete pier on the shore of the olympic peninsula. bad weather has prevented a close study. no signs or letters have been confirmed on the pier. a floating pier from japan's northeastern prefecture was found on the oregon coast in june. it was later demolished by the state government. japan's environment...
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>> the newtown shootings are the subject of the latest edition of inside story from washington. >> the search for answers to the mass killings at sandy hook. is the speculation about the mental health of the gunmen adding to the stigmatization of the mentally ill and doing little to address the root causes? that discussion on inside story, 7:30 p.m. on al-jazeera. >> more good news for the depressed greek economy. standard & poors upgraded its rating. here are the ratings levels given by standard and poor's. aaa means the country should have no problem in meeting its financial commitments. only germany and the netherlands have this rate. before the upgrade, greece's rating had fallen to selective default, which meant it failed to pay on one or more of its obligations. now it was pushed upward to b minus. this shows that greece can meet its financial commitments. i spoke to the fellow at the peterson institute for international economics. >> i think was s&p is catching up to is the improved political goodwill in the rest of the euro area towards the greek economy. yesterday, greece got
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triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush who writes now that the u.s. has drawn a red line on syria it has made it clear it's ready to take action but how i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of. credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people but suffice it to say we are certainly planning to. take action if that eventuality were to occur two american warships are already near the syrian coast with some. one thousand u.s. marines and dozens of fighter jets on board on top of that nato is sending american german and dutch batteries of patriot anti-aircraft missiles to turkey's bord
triggered a civil war that killed more than one hundred thousand innocent iraqis and years later all washington had to say about this was the president thought it was correct congress thought it was of course i regret that it turned out a lot of it was wrong in the run up to the iraq invasion the us media was instrumental in selling the case to the public the congress never had any proof ever present ever of weapons of mass destruction all came from tony blair. bush who writes now that the u.s....
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preliminary approval to banning americans from adopting russian children is in response to washington so-called magnitsky act sanctioning russian officials. israel says it's pressing ahead with plans to build six thousand more homes in the west bank and east jerusalem in response to the palestinians upgrade. in six months. london embassy. is set to deliver his christmas message to his plans for next year. two years you're watching. now russia's state duma has given its preliminary approval to a ban on americans adopting russian children it's part of a draft seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act this to russians under sanctions by washington the bill has drawn both support and criticism from lawmakers causing a rift in the russian political elite. it's really not clear at the moment if this draft in its current form will indeed become an act in the war because this issue really has with russia's political elite we have heard from several ministers including the foreign minister who spoke against introducing it the speaker of the federation council has also called on russian
preliminary approval to banning americans from adopting russian children is in response to washington so-called magnitsky act sanctioning russian officials. israel says it's pressing ahead with plans to build six thousand more homes in the west bank and east jerusalem in response to the palestinians upgrade. in six months. london embassy. is set to deliver his christmas message to his plans for next year. two years you're watching. now russia's state duma has given its preliminary approval to a...
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. >> schieffer: maya, you have been one of the go-to people in washington on this, in terms of crunching numbers and figuring out the impact of these proposals. you talk to us and help us understand it. tell us a little about this organization, your organization "campaign to fix the debt." what exactly are you trying to do? >> well, the campaign to fix the debt was really born out of some of the issues surrounding issues of the debt ceiling. people around the country became painfully aware the divisions in washington are may be so large we will harm our economy and harm our problem as they fail to solve problems and work these things out. over the past year, we have been joined by 300,000 saturdays, 100 of the leading ceoas, and small businesses who have said we need fix the debt, that we know. but we wanted to create a different kind of campaign where we come to washington, and while you have so many folks on side saying, "don't touch this. don't touch this. take this off the table." suddenly you're left with nothing on the table to fick the problem. we wanted to create a broad-based bi
. >> schieffer: maya, you have been one of the go-to people in washington on this, in terms of crunching numbers and figuring out the impact of these proposals. you talk to us and help us understand it. tell us a little about this organization, your organization "campaign to fix the debt." what exactly are you trying to do? >> well, the campaign to fix the debt was really born out of some of the issues surrounding issues of the debt ceiling. people around the country...
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have we are joined by an economics columnist with the washington newspaper. he says without an immediate deal, the discussion will significantly change in the new year. >> i think what we will see from the republicans is much greater flexibility as we get into the new year, if it comes to that. and, instead of voting for a tax increase, they are voting for a tax cut. the same policy, when you are voting for it on january 4, would be a tax cut. today, it would be a tax increase. it is a weird way of thinking about it, but we are a strange land, in terms of u.s. policy right now. heather is a sense the entire dynamic would change if we get a few days into the new year without a deal. the white house feel they have gone close to as far as they can go in terms of an offer. the have adjusted their proposal on tax increases so they would only go up on those making $400,000 a year, not $250,000 a year. they want real concessions out of the republicans before the agreed to everything. they do not want to negotiate against themselves and throw in the towel when they d
have we are joined by an economics columnist with the washington newspaper. he says without an immediate deal, the discussion will significantly change in the new year. >> i think what we will see from the republicans is much greater flexibility as we get into the new year, if it comes to that. and, instead of voting for a tax increase, they are voting for a tax cut. the same policy, when you are voting for it on january 4, would be a tax cut. today, it would be a tax increase. it is a...
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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. these are headlines for tuesday december eighteenth two thousand and one japanese pension funds are starting to invest in gold for the first time according to the wall street journal they're looking to mitigate the damage. risks associated with currencies the paper says until recently they've invested in mostly domestic stocks and bonds will have more on metals with the gold antitrust action committees bill murphy and chris powell here in studio plus the f.c.c. has approved a j.p. morgan copper exchange traded fund reportedly the first one it's backed by physical copper and received the go ahead despite opposition from companies that actually use copper and some lawmakers who opposed it too now the concerns are that it could allow speculators says the market increase price volatility and undermine price transparent bill metal. the new towns judy.
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in london we have done it he is a reader in politics and environment at king's college london and in washington we cross to michael coogan he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london if you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's illiterate served want to wars but in fact it misleads people into thinking that you run out of water whatever that means you then automatically reach for a kalashnikov and go to war waters we have seen over the past forty years at least war is that when people run out of water that is they haven't got enough water to raise the food that they need at home they're not no longer self-sufficient they then reach for trade because trade is quiet and invisible it doesn't raise any politics a country all the twenty countries in the middle east and many other countries in the world and all the countries in europe except france can easily move into dependence on importe
in london we have done it he is a reader in politics and environment at king's college london and in washington we cross to michael coogan he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time one twenty five go to you first in london if you like the term water wars because it's used a lot in media. it sounds good because it's illiterate served want to wars but in fact it misleads...
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presidents bush and obama as secretary of defense, and doing some speaking but staying as far from washington, d.c. as i can. >> rose: when you look at writing a book, i mean, how hard is that for you to take the time anand think of all of the events and make sure that you get it right as you recollect it? >> first i have given myself a little out at the beginning by saying this is a purely personal reminiscence of what i experienced and what i saw, i am not trying to write the defensive history and others will have a different perspective on things, but it was -- we were at war every day of the four and a half years i was in office, and as i write in the book it wasn't just the wars in iraq and afghanistan, it was daily wars with the congress, with other agencies, with the white house, and also i would say with my own building, with the pentagon. >> rose: fighting over what within the pentagon? >> trying to make the first priority of the pentagon to be successful in the wars we were already in, the pentagon bureaucracy is structured to plan for war, not to wage war, and so getting badly need
presidents bush and obama as secretary of defense, and doing some speaking but staying as far from washington, d.c. as i can. >> rose: when you look at writing a book, i mean, how hard is that for you to take the time anand think of all of the events and make sure that you get it right as you recollect it? >> first i have given myself a little out at the beginning by saying this is a purely personal reminiscence of what i experienced and what i saw, i am not trying to write the...
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discussion on water we have to we have to wrap it up here many thanks my guest today in london and washington thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember i'll talk to. to keep the story. and. to. keep. wealthy british style some time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. well. kelly. offers an air show and an easy was a matter you. most of the residents never profit from the performances you'll see of coming our signature there when you look up and there's one check in on you he alpha beta gamma he was all the the final trinitarian he's let me out there know what's going on so i can pinpoint. the dirt right now. shells become income mortal danger and a piece of art. stinks and it's just been making him three. bombs. on our team. the gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. but also among brotherhood involved and since i started working at the moment i stated. multinationals. trying to be milked dry at least i thin
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we report from washington. >> sundown on capitol hill in washington d.c. -- washington, d.c., and senate majority leader comes to the microphones to send everyone home until early monday morning, no deal imminent. the mother is still significant difference, but negotiations->> -- >> there is still significant difference, but negotiations continue. >> republicans sought late-day changes to social security in return for tax hikes on the rich. >> the consequences for this are too high for the american people to be engaged in a political messaging campaign. >> the social security move was met with this belief by democrats. so much so, they have no answer to it. >> at this stage, i do not have a counter offer. >> an attempt to broker a deal came up from as high as the vice president. of twoconfident that one things are going to happen when it comes to the fiscal clip. number one, we will see an agreement in the next 48 hours, in which case, middle-class taxes will not go up. if that does not happen, then democrats in the senate will put a bill on the floor of the senate and republicans will h
we report from washington. >> sundown on capitol hill in washington d.c. -- washington, d.c., and senate majority leader comes to the microphones to send everyone home until early monday morning, no deal imminent. the mother is still significant difference, but negotiations->> -- >> there is still significant difference, but negotiations continue. >> republicans sought late-day changes to social security in return for tax hikes on the rich. >> the consequences for...
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been going to michael in washington shows is michael i saw you want to jump in there go ahead yeah i think it's we should say that to some extent it is appropriate that water is politicized and that's because there really is some potential for a conflict over water at some point not necessarily today but sometime down the road take south asia this is a region that i focus on more than any other region very few countries get along and most of the region share is rivers india and pakistan of course share the indus and india china bali dash the share rivers and it's very very easy for a country and operate parian country to take some sort of punitive measure such as for example hypothetically cutting off river flows to the country downstream and something could happen that way but i think that what is even more concerning when you want to talk about the potential for water conflict is not country war between countries but really conflict within countries in india and pakistan there are tremendous amount of tensions and disagreements over river sharing allocations punjab and sindh in pak
been going to michael in washington shows is michael i saw you want to jump in there go ahead yeah i think it's we should say that to some extent it is appropriate that water is politicized and that's because there really is some potential for a conflict over water at some point not necessarily today but sometime down the road take south asia this is a region that i focus on more than any other region very few countries get along and most of the region share is rivers india and pakistan of...
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there is little sign of any holiday good cheer. >> in washington, the fiscal cliff a stalemate remains. >> the latest on the fiscal cliff. >> the ugly phrase that is on everyone's lips, fiscal cliff, is what america could tumble off and 11 days. it means that if the president and congress cannot agree on a plan to sort out finances, there will be automatic savage cuts and brittle tax rises. neither side is budging much. >> it is very hard for them to say yes to me. at some point, they have got to take me out of it and think about their voters. >> four weeks, the white house said that if i move on rates, they would make substantial concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reform. i did my part. they have done nothing. >> it would mean automatic spending cuts worth more than a trillion dollars. taxes for the average household would go up by about three and a half thousand dollars. most economists say the u.s. would be put back into recession and global growth could be halved. the u.s. defense budget alone would face a cut of $500 billion. companies like aircraft manufacturers are ver
there is little sign of any holiday good cheer. >> in washington, the fiscal cliff a stalemate remains. >> the latest on the fiscal cliff. >> the ugly phrase that is on everyone's lips, fiscal cliff, is what america could tumble off and 11 days. it means that if the president and congress cannot agree on a plan to sort out finances, there will be automatic savage cuts and brittle tax rises. neither side is budging much. >> it is very hard for them to say yes to me. at...
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discussion on water we have to we have to wrap it up here many thanks my guest today in london and washington thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember i'll talk to. the kitchen . and. the. secret lumber touring. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. wealthy british soil but it's time to. find. the. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. russia would be so much brighter if you knew more about someone from finest impression in some. news for instance on t.v. dot com.
discussion on water we have to we have to wrap it up here many thanks my guest today in london and washington thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember i'll talk to. the kitchen . and. the. secret lumber touring. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. wealthy british soil but it's...
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here it is. >> third floor northeast corner >> [indiscernible] for the hard stuff. >> washington says she's a killer. >> rose: what's the significance of the scene we just saw? 18 seconds. >> well, it's, it's really how she interfaces with her colleagues and her colleagues kind of adjusting to the new person, just fresh in from washington. and it's sort of gives you an impression of their assess the of her. >> rose: it's fair to say that at some point between 2012 and 2002, there was some exasperation within the united states government about the failure to find osama bin laden. and if you ask anybody as i did often at this table, they would say we don't know. they would say we've lost the trail. fair enough. so there was some pressure on the people who were charged with doing this because the president had set -- first thing on panetta, get this guy. >> it's an enormous amount of pressure and what we try to demonstrate in the film, the stake weren't just about 9/11 right because al-qaeda continued to attack western targets. and you know, to have the job where if you make a wrong deci
here it is. >> third floor northeast corner >> [indiscernible] for the hard stuff. >> washington says she's a killer. >> rose: what's the significance of the scene we just saw? 18 seconds. >> well, it's, it's really how she interfaces with her colleagues and her colleagues kind of adjusting to the new person, just fresh in from washington. and it's sort of gives you an impression of their assess the of her. >> rose: it's fair to say that at some point between...
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go home. >> tweet us your pictures at nbc washington, and that will do it for us.
go home. >> tweet us your pictures at nbc washington, and that will do it for us.
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they have indeed greatly increased staffs and they even have elements in washington that begin to act like lobbies. when a new problem arises, a joint task force is put together. and that makes sense. and the elements may come from more than one of the unified and specified commands. so i think another look is needed at not at the question of jointness, but at how it's carried out. and how the overhead is distributed. >> you worked in the pentagon during the vietnam war and there are those and you even mentioned certain parallels between the vietnam conflict and what we're seeing in afghanistan. right now there's a big debate going on in washington whether or not troop levels should remain high to ensure that we can train the afghans fast enough to hand over control before we leave at the end of 2014. why is that a bad idea from your standpoint? >> the real question is what kind of country is going to -- will it be possible to leave behind? and the case of vietnam, my own conclusion back in period of 1967, '68, became that the government there was unsustainable because it really did n
they have indeed greatly increased staffs and they even have elements in washington that begin to act like lobbies. when a new problem arises, a joint task force is put together. and that makes sense. and the elements may come from more than one of the unified and specified commands. so i think another look is needed at not at the question of jointness, but at how it's carried out. and how the overhead is distributed. >> you worked in the pentagon during the vietnam war and there are...
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that's the sort of interest that that sort of conversation helps and that's very unfortunate michel in washington jumping ahead. you know i was just going to say picking up on what donna just said there seems to be a tendency that if if you hear a country is running out of water it's going to require some sort of huge incredible thing whether it be some sort of large dam or some huge project or some major endeavor to rescue the country and bring back water generate more why not really in a lot of cases and particularly in a case like pakistan which i've looked at quite closely i know donnish as well you know you could take relatively simple measures like paying a relatively small amount of money to patch up leaks in water pipes you know it doesn't mean taking a ten second shower either you know convene investing in your a geisha in technologies that use drip forms of irrigation instead of the flood irrigation which is used more commonly in that country and in other countries across south asia and elsewhere so you know i think it's more sexy and so forth to say oh well you know this country is is
that's the sort of interest that that sort of conversation helps and that's very unfortunate michel in washington jumping ahead. you know i was just going to say picking up on what donna just said there seems to be a tendency that if if you hear a country is running out of water it's going to require some sort of huge incredible thing whether it be some sort of large dam or some huge project or some major endeavor to rescue the country and bring back water generate more why not really in a lot...
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the latest round of a lot of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago washington and its allies imposed restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program which tehran maintains is peaceful. a taliban attack on a police station has left at least eight people dead in pakistan's northwestern city of new details of how that assault unfolded are still unclear but according to some reports insurgents had fired rockets at the gate and then bombarded the station with grenades banu a situated on the edge of pakistan's rest of the tribal belt plagued by insurgency is often targeted by armed militants. meanwhile the militant group hamas will not give up an inch of palestinian territories that is according to the organization's political leader khaled mashal who was speaking on his last day of a visit to gaza he also slammed israel for the occupation of palestinian lands and refused to recognize the country's the missing israel responded that it would never unilaterally withdraw from the west bank saying that what undermined its security in the country criticized the
the latest round of a lot of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago washington and its allies imposed restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program which tehran maintains is peaceful. a taliban attack on a police station has left at least eight people dead in pakistan's northwestern city of new details of how that assault unfolded are still unclear but according to some reports insurgents had fired rockets at the gate and then bombarded the station...
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from washington journal, this is a little more than an hour. >> we are back. our conversation continues. gordon adams is the white house associate budget director for national security served from 1993 to 1997, and vice president of lexington institute here to give their perspective on sequestration and the impact on the pentagon. let's begin. what affect would this have, with immediate effect with the sequestration have on the pentagon? >> many of the contracts we already have for the major weapons in the 46 new tanker to be broken because of the change in money. what have to be very minimum renegotiated, but because of the reduced it's not clear how they would renegotiate or whether they could in fact be reestablished. second, you are going to have a slowdown in the existing. its renegotiated because the amount of money going through is the previous guest indicated this grant be less. third, you are going to have additional problems with respect to operations and maintenance accounts with it is the flying hours available to the trained pilots to do something
from washington journal, this is a little more than an hour. >> we are back. our conversation continues. gordon adams is the white house associate budget director for national security served from 1993 to 1997, and vice president of lexington institute here to give their perspective on sequestration and the impact on the pentagon. let's begin. what affect would this have, with immediate effect with the sequestration have on the pentagon? >> many of the contracts we already have for...
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spoke in washington on behalf of the brady campaign. his 8-year-old son was pulled into a classroom by the teacher and escaped harm at the shooting last week. >> i am an immigrant. i have been here for 22 years. i held these beliefs, america has a deep history with guns. it is part of american history. gun owners and people who handle guns, they know how to keep them safe and be responsible. our politicians will do whatever they can to make sure our kids are safe. and, you know, every time something like columbine, virginia tech, or aurora happens, i ever my eyes and think, something must be done. but all those beliefs were shattered on friday. now i think we all need to speak up. >> democratic congressmember dennis kucinich. >> we spent trillions on more, to wage violence thousands of miles away, and we become anesthetized to the wilds of or against millions of innocent women, men, and children are brought. it is no wonder we are grappling with domestic violence. and as and if we took a fraction of those drilling we use for war and use
spoke in washington on behalf of the brady campaign. his 8-year-old son was pulled into a classroom by the teacher and escaped harm at the shooting last week. >> i am an immigrant. i have been here for 22 years. i held these beliefs, america has a deep history with guns. it is part of american history. gun owners and people who handle guns, they know how to keep them safe and be responsible. our politicians will do whatever they can to make sure our kids are safe. and, you know, every...
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it has a potentially crushing impact people here in washington say you know that that doesn't matter what difference does it make we can borrow as much money as we like forever wrong we can't if you don't grow economically you can't attract investment truth is we're not really growing theoretically at one point two percent and falling europe is in serious trouble what happens in europe what happens in china where they're preparing for a hard landing all of these things will have an impact here we're in a lot of trouble you can't retire that debt so no you could confiscate all the wealth from the top five percent of the american people it would make a dent really it wouldn't make a try you know have your talk about running the government for six months. all right well let's talk about the new the the new fiscal year two thousand and thirteen bill that was just passing and it's about the senate waiting on the house but it's an increase of seventeen billion dollars is this a gross contradiction we're talking about you know we're facing this looming cliff that we're about to pull off thi
it has a potentially crushing impact people here in washington say you know that that doesn't matter what difference does it make we can borrow as much money as we like forever wrong we can't if you don't grow economically you can't attract investment truth is we're not really growing theoretically at one point two percent and falling europe is in serious trouble what happens in europe what happens in china where they're preparing for a hard landing all of these things will have an impact here...